BUST

3/20/13 - 5/19/13

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY LAUREN WEEDMAN
DIRECTED BY ALLISON NARVER

Lauren Weedman’s one-woman show is a mostly autobiographical play based on her experiences working as a volunteer advocate in a Southern California prison for women. Weedman’s job is to listen, but talking is what she does best, with occasionally disastrous and frequently hilarious results. She plays dozens of characters, switching from prostitute to parole officer, addict to editor, with nuance and empathy. With one foot in Hollywood and the other in jail, the former Daily Show correspondent careens wildly between the two worlds, taking us on a poignant, entertaining, and completely unforgettable ride.

Studio Special Events bring unique performances and one-of-a-kind events from around the world to DC.

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The 2011-2012 Special Events Season was generously underwritten by Susan L. and Dixon M. Butler.

This production of Bust was underwritten by Jaylee M. Mead.

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Production Team

SET AND LIGHTING DESIGN

Allen Hahn

Allen Hahn has designed Three Tall Women for Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Lady with All the Answers for Pittsburgh Public Theatre, The Front Page for Playmakers Rep, Ghosts for Geva Theatre, and numerous productions in New York City. His work in opera has been seen at New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass, and the Spoleto USA Festival, and internationally for opera companies and festivals in France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, and the UK. He has also designed world premiere operas at Juilliard and the Royal Danish Opera. Mr. Hahn has worked with the performance company The Builders Association since its inception in 1994. He has also worked with artist Tony Oursler on installations at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and ARoS Kunstmuseum in Denmark. His design work was selected for exhibition in the 2007 Prague Quadrennial and he served as Lighting Design Curator for the American exhibit at the 2011 Quadrennial.

(As of December 2011)

ORIGINAL SOUND DESIGN

Mark Nichols

Mark Nichols currently works as a freelance Director of Photography in Los Angeles. He is the composer of the operas How to Survive the Apocalypse: A Burning Opera, Little Boy Goes to Hell, and Joe Bean. He designed the world premiere of Bust at Empty Space Theatre in Seattle.  His score for Caucasian Chalk Circle is performed up to a dozen times per year around the world.

(As of December 2011)

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

Eric Arnold

STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: The Rocky Horror Show, Contractions, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Stage Manager). STUDIO THEATRE: Dirt (Assistant Stage Manager), Bust (Stage Manager). DC AREA: Three years as Resident Assistant Stage Manager at the Folger Theatre (Taming of the Shrew, The Gaming Table, Othello, Cyrano, Comedy of Errors, Henry VIII, Hamlet, Orestes: A Tragic Romp, Much Ado About Nothing), Birds of a Feather (The Hub, Stage Manager), Stop Kiss (No Rules Theatre, Stage Manager), We’re Proud to Present… (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 2nd Assist. Stage Manager, February 2014). EDUCATION: BFA Stage Management, Virginia Commonwealth University.

(As of December 2013)

Press

If Lauren Weedman is an acquired taste, I’ve acquired it
THE WASHINGTON POST
Anna Deveare Smith on speed
DC THEATRE SCENE

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